From: Philippe Troin Subject: Re: Journaling FileSystems w/ NFS Date: 21 Sep 2002 12:14:52 -0700 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <87lm5vupcj.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> References: Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Return-path: Received: from tantale.fifi.org ([216.27.190.146]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17spiT-00040i-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:14:57 -0700 To: Greg Boehnlein In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Greg Boehnlein writes: > Let me bring you up to speed on what we are doing, and provide an accurate > idea of what our needs and requirements are. Instead of backing our data > up directly to tape, we instead dump it to a large 320 Gig, RAID-5 > partition on a Linux box. That, in turn, is backed up to tape on a regular > basis and taken offsite. Recent growth of data on some of our "Cobalt Raq" > servers has forced us to upgrade to a filesystem that can handle file > sizes of greater than 2 gigs. (Why Cobalt doesn't split their backup > archives into multiple pieces is beyond me). On occasion, this partition > needs to be accessible via NFS for other Servers and workstations. > Obviously with a file system of that size, a journaling system would be > advantageous. > > So, we need three main things: > 1. Journaling File System > 2. Large file support > 3. NFS Compatibility > > I had suggested XFS to my Operations Manager, but he decided to try using > JFS, as it was an included option in RedHat 7.3. Installation went > beautifully, and everything was peachy, until we tried to export that > file-system via NFS. Doing so caused the load average on the box to > skyrocket.. Apparently, NFS and JFS don't get along very well together. > > Our solution? Use XFS. ;) However, there do appear to be issues between > JFS and NFS... Not sure where, or what, but I thought I'd mention it. I'd be curious to know why you did not choose the "easy" solution: ext3. It is journalled, it has LFS support, and works flawlessly with NFS. Phil. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs